How do you make sure that when using stories in your lesson, you still drill down to the details of the content?
One of the most challenging tasks in Story-Based Learning Design is combining facts within the story.
This WOW series explains an actual demo on a technical production content and how characters have a conversation.
Video by Ray to explain the demo
Demo is Downtime
| 1 | Use an event with characters having conversations. | |||
| 2 | Discuss the factual content, like statistics and data, that are relevant to the story. | |||
| 3 | Never insert a fact if it is not within the context of the story. | |||
| 4 | Add more facts as references to support the information used within the story. |
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Ray Jimenez, PhD
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